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Editing an entry

The pencil on any entry row opens the Edit entry dialog. It has two halves: what was detected, and what it becomes.

Detected text (from)

Section titled “Detected text (from)”

The top field is the original — the exact text the replacement matches. Editing it does two useful things:

  • Fix a bad span. If detection caught Patel, with a trailing comma, or only Marcos when it should be Marcos Patel, correct it here so the replacement lands on the right text.
  • Extend coverage. Widen the original to catch a longer form the model split into pieces.

Type

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A searchable dropdown of the full type catalog. Change it when the model misclassified — an account number tagged as a phone number, an address tagged as an organization. The type also decides what a synthesized value looks like, so getting it right matters when you regenerate.

Output: how it’s replaced

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A three-way switch sets the replacement method for this one entry, independent of the document’s method pill:

Synthesize

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Generate a realistic fake value.

  • Pick a language / region — Español, Català, Euskera, Galego, English, Português, Français, and more. See synthetic data.
  • Pick a gender (Any / Female / Male) to steer names.
  • Click Generate to produce a value, or type your own into the box next to it. Generate again for a different one.

Example: a NAME entry, region Català, gender Female → Núria Vilà Roca.

Redact

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Replace with a masking fill. Choose a redaction character — full block █, light shade ░, asterisks, or a custom character — and the value becomes that character repeated to the length of the original. 71530642M → █████████.

Label

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Replace with a token. Either:

  • Pick from the catalog — [NAME], [EMAIL], [ID], etc., or
  • Write your own — any text that starts with [ and ends with ]. Piixie validates the brackets so labels stay recognizable. [PATIENT], [CASE_REF] — your call.

Saving the edit

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Save applies it to the row immediately. A manual edit is marked as yours, which means switching the document method won’t overwrite it — your value survives until you deliberately change it (or Rebuild). The change is undoable like everything else.

When to edit vs. add vs. draw

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  • The model found the value but got it slightly wrong → edit (you’re here).
  • The model missed it entirely → add an entry.
  • It’s a stamp, photo, or signature with no text → draw a redaction.

Next

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